Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:32:07 +0100
> From: Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> NAME
>      link - make a hard file link

> DESCRIPTION
>      The link() function call atomically creates the specified directory
> entry
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^
>      (hard link) name2 with the attributes of the underlying object
> pointed at
>      by name1. If the link is successful: the link count of the
> underlying ob-
>      ject is incremented; name1 and name2 share equal access and rights
> to the
>      underlying object.

IE. link() atomically creates the directory entry and increments
the usage count of the inode. I don't see anything about writing
the thing to disk ...

regards,

Rik
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